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by echelon 4mo ago
Share buttons got a 5-7% CTR on the last social media project I built and were responsible for a huge number of inbound referrals. Lots of long tail SEO too. If the trillion dollar tech companies have them, there's a reason.
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by echelon 4mo ago
It's not propaganda. It's a market trying to find the new low energy state. This stuff is putting an expiration date on your domain experience, and leadership is salivating at the chance to cut OpEx. At bare minimum, every PM is s
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by echelon 4mo ago
Having a handful of companies that can contact you has created a land of monopoly hyperscalers. It's so hard to build anything big and durable because they've created these steep gradients.
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by echelon 4mo ago
Was this the right choice, though? Interest in Calvin & Hobbes has fallen off a cliff. I don't see any references to it in public anymore, and it used to be everywhere. Kids today probably don't even know about it.
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by echelon 4mo ago
If you're doing professional work in coding or video, you can easily saturate a single H200. This is what RunPod-type services are for. For instance, ComfyUI is an abomination that can't do half of what Nano Banana and Seedance 2.
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by echelon 4mo ago
> The US military budget is 900 billion dollars. And we're about to pay over a third of that to Iran?
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by echelon 4mo ago
I would rather we give up the idea of running open models on RTX cards and instead focus on running much bigger open models on H200s. 1. The hardware will eventually catch up. 2. This keeps the delta between frontier models smaller. 3. We c
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by echelon 4mo ago
Fable makes any IDE AI integration almost entirely unnecessary. Claude one shots pretty much everything, and fixing any small errors is easier when just talking to Claude again. Anthropic is going to offer better pricing using their agentic
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by echelon 4mo ago
The amyloid and tau people have had over thirty years with nothing to show for it. It's time for the inflammation / diabetes / infection / metabolic dysfunction / liver dysfunction folks to get more money to test th
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by echelon 5mo ago
> The idea is that if you drop this somewhere in public, you can try to match whatever color was there before so it is less noticeable that anything changed. I *love* this concept so much. Even though the books are a neat hook, these wif
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by echelon 5mo ago
> As one example, a friend of mine has remarked that large corporations will benefit from the current AI-induced reality of no one being able to afford their own hardware, and keep prices that way to enforce a renters model on computers.
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is less an anti-AI post and more a post against the greed of the industry: > But things feel different now. I can relate to what Chris Person said when he expressed his frustrations about how these slick conmen are using the technol
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by echelon 5mo ago
That's good for your personal computing, but a renewing forest fire is good for all sorts of organizations. And species. It's a very good algorithm to run. It's naturally de-ossifying and forces uptake of new methods and prac
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is exactly what I came to comment. There are so many conserved ideas in folklore. Dragons, gods, fairy lights and will-o'-the-wisp. Star peoples, floods. I wonder if structures in information and latent reality space cause us to d
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by echelon 5mo ago
Flash is still unsurpassed as the easiest publishing medium. JavaScript build system layer cake and "web standards" are a million times harder than just drawing some stuff, maybe writing a simple function, then building a static f
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by echelon 5mo ago
The value of all software is going to trend to zero soon. I don't know why anyone thinks they can sell software anymore. You're going to sell outcomes.
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by echelon 5mo ago
30 out of 34 comments are about the content blocking. Only four comments are about the content of the article, and none of them really go into depth. This has been at the top of HN all day. If people can't see it, what gives?
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by echelon 5mo ago
I've built one $2.5 million annualized run rate company using Opus this year. Four months of 50+% MoM growth. I couldn't have done that without the model giving me lots of time to do marketing. And build a complete feature set. So
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by echelon 5mo ago
For now.
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by echelon 5mo ago
One day a few million dollars in tokens will enable you to mint an entire AWS or iPhone. That will not be something you can purchase. Only enormous capital holders will have access and be able to play that game. We're going to be left
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by echelon 5mo ago
Most of the people on HN thinking this stuff is garbage won't be working in tech in five years. There simply won't be jobs for them. The risk is that all of these very incredibly smart and disgruntled people decide to do something
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by echelon 5mo ago
I suppose you're right. All software is about to be as valuable as a single jpeg you see on your Instagram feed. What matters is physical infrastructure (datacenters), the lead on competitors / open source models, and distribution
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by echelon 5mo ago
It's too late. You can one-shot a port of Linux to Rust and stop contributing to open source. The value of software is going to tend towards zero. The value of the software developer the same. Anthropic is now a kingmaker. It gets to d
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by echelon 5mo ago
> I am astonished on a daily basis that my Linux computer is so close to the same experience as two operating systems put out by trillion dollar companies. It even does things that those commercial alternatives don’t do. We live in a wor
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by echelon 5mo ago
> because AI has almost reached its most usable peak It doesn't seem to be showing any signs of stopping. Have you used Fable 5? It's a fantastically capable model and trumps anything that came before it. Seedance 2.0 is catego
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by echelon 5mo ago
> Very few businesses can pay 1M without blinking. None of my customers. Then they won't survive the termination boundary. Too bad. Should have had more cash.
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by echelon 5mo ago
Pay $1,000,000 per business function you want to build. Businesses will gladly pay it. Individuals will be locked out and unable to compete. Oracle will be able to "prompt a new smartphone" for $500M or whatever and enter the mark
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by echelon 5mo ago
> The copyright system is one of the major suspects for why US industry ended up crippled and replaced by Asian labour refusing to respect US IP laws to their significant advantage. Expand on this. Wasn't it instead our desire to be
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by echelon 5mo ago
I have never seen such a hive of negativity and pessimism in my life. This thinking sand did your job 5x faster. And you could have used the opportunity cost to do other things. The engineers and artists in this country that are dunking on
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by echelon 5mo ago
> "Create" is doing a lot of lifting here. No, it's not. And assets will be generated soon, too. Stop downplaying how absolutely fucking magical this is. We are at an inflection point in civilization. This is the most amaz

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